Recruiter - Mountain Area

Position Summary

Our Penske Recruiter will manage the full life-cycle recruiting process, including: sourcing, selection, offer negotiation, and initiating the onboarding process for a designated business group. We are seeking a highly responsive, customer focused individual with strong time management and organizational skills to manage approximately 30-50 (primarily hourly) positions. This position is not remote and will be working in either the Mountain Area office in Tempe or in the branches.

Major Responsibilities

• Maintains effective working relationship with HR and Operational partners to ensure appropriate staffing service levels are met through the creation of area staffing plans
• Confers with management and supervisors to identify staffing needs and requirements, conducting intake/scoping calls and providing process overviews and realistic expectations to hiring managers.
• Manages the necessary sourcing and advertising of openings
• Develops and maintains relationships with technical schools, colleges, alumni groups, military sources, and diversity organizations to find and attract applicants
• Manages and facilitates onsite hiring events (open house, career fairs, interview days)
• Conducts electronic screening and phone screening of candidates, updating status in our tracking system.
• Maintains constant communication with hiring managers on active candidates. Also regularly discusses future hiring needs and backup candidates.
• Cohorts background checks on applicants, and reference checks where appropriate
• Counsels hiring managers with effective recruiting practices to ensure polices and legal requirements are in compliance.
• Possess and maintains on-going knowledge of the latest recruiting strategies utilizing a high level of creativity and latitude.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years recruiting experience in a large, decentralized or centralized company environment required
• Bilingual Spanish candidates with fluency in reading/writing highly preferred
• Bachelor's degree required, or, at least 3 years of equivalent work experience required
• Must have demonstrated internal customer service skills, including troubleshoot and problem solving experiences.
• Must have demonstrated strong organizational and documentation skills
• Able to communicate effectively both in-person and through written correspondences and presentations with candidates, peers, managers, and leadership.
• Able to work in dynamic, fast paced environment, and keep up with a high volume of activity
• Detail oriented, self-motivated, strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize
• Willingness to travel, about 20-40% to various locations by car, plane or train overnight, as required or directed by area operational leadership
• Excellent knowledge of Internet candidate data mining; recruiting certification preferred
• Strong knowledge of enterprise applicant tracking systems required, prior experience with Taleo preferred
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit.
• The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms.
• The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.